Discussion:

What chapter in the book and what NETS-S standard did you choose to focus on? (Groups of 3)

RSS in Plain English


iGoogle Home Page

Create your iGoogle page with some feeds that are of interest to you personally and/or professionally.

iGoogle Crib Sheet




More on RSS

Google Reader
NY Times RSS Feed
CNN RSS Feeds
Technorati Advanced Blog Search
Google Blog Search
Google News RSS Feeds
RSS for Educators by John Hendron (see me for the book)

Video

How Google Saved a School
(Turn & Talk about students, technology and multi-tasking.)

Even More Google

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Google Apps for Education

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Kern Kelley's Google Tools Comic Boo k

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Speed Geeking Activity

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Google Alerts
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Blog Search
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external image coop.gifCustom Search
external image maps.gifMaps and Google Earth
external image news.gif News
external image news.gifNews Archive
external image scholar.gifScholar
external image movies.gifWeb Search Features
Google Squared
Google News Timeline
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Blogger
external image calendar.gifCalendar
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Creating Wikis



Assignments

  1. Read
  • Learning with Blogs & Wikis by Bill Ferriter, Educational Leadership, February 2009
  • Select the chapter in the text that has the strategy you will focus on in your project.

  1. Write
  • A post on each of the Ferriter article, Learning with Blogs & Wikis, describing your thoughts about blogs and wikis as digital tools for professional learning. Label the post Classwork.
  • Write an entry in your blog that describes technology resources to support the learning strategy from the text that you plan to focus on in your project. Label the post Classwork.
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